Muck-car.



J. W. HENDERSON & 3. E. SHERIFF.

MUGK GAE.

APPLICATION FILED SBPT.'18,1907- Patented Apr. 27, 1909.

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APPLIUATION FILED SEPT. 18,1907.

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J. W. HENDERSON & J. E. SHERIFF.

MUGK GAR.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 18,1907.

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APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 18,1907.

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JOHN W. HENDERSON AND JAMES E. SHERIFF, OF OURAY, COLORADO.

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specification gf Letters Patent.

Patented April 27, 1909.

Application filed September 18, 1907. Serial No. 393,462.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN W. HENDER- SON and JAMES E. SHERIFF, citizens of the a United States, and residents of Ouray, in the county of Ouray and State of Colorado, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Muck-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a muck car with,

the object in view :of providing a muck car which will dump automatically and in which a forty-five degree angle for dumping the load either endwise or sidewise may be obtamed while maintaining the height of the car sufficiently low for convenient loading and the wheels sufficiently large for easy traveling.

A practical embodiment of our invention is represented 1n the accompanying drawings, in which, i

Figure 1 is a View of the car in side elevation, showing one of the rockers partly in section, Flg. 2' 1s a view in rear end elevation,

Fig. 3 is a view in front end elevation, Fig. 4

is a top plan view ofthe running gear and operating parts of the car, the body being shown in its position relative thereto, partly in section and partlyin dotted lines, Fig. 5 is a partial vertical section showing the body in full lines in partially tilted position and in dotted lines in full tilted position, and Fig. 6 is a view in detail showing the dumping lever and the arm for returning the latch rod to its normal position when swinging the dumping lever to its position. F

The car body is denoted by 1. It is here shown of oblong rectangular form and has at its forward end a door 2 hinged to a cross bar 3 at the top, its bottom being provided with a rail 4 for receiving thebent end 5 of the latch rod 6. The body is mounted by means of a pair of rockers 7 and 8 on the up or section '9 of a turn-table, .thelatter being eld in positionwith respect to the lower section 10 of the turn-table by a king bolt 11, the turntable itself being supported upon a skeleton truck frame 12, 1n the present mstance a metallic frame of U-shape as clearly shown in Fi 4, the said frame being provided with ax es 13, 14, each carrying a pa r of wheels, in the present instance flanged wheels, for traveling on track rails.

Wheels on the axle 13 are denoted by 15, 16, and those on the axle 14, by 17, 18. The track rails are denoted respectively by 19, 2o.

The latch rod 6 extends from the front to the rear of the car underneath the body of the car and has a bearing in a bracket 21 fat the front of the car and a bracket 22 about mid-way of the car and again in a plate 23 at the rear end of the car, the leg 22 of the mid-way bracket as well as assist the rockers 7 and -'thecar body is inits horizontal position, as showninFig.1.- I i F The rockers 7 and 8 are retained in position on the turn-table by pointed lugs, two for each rocker, noted by 24, 25, and those for the rocker 8 being denoted by 26, 27, which lugs register with perforations in the rockers, the rocker 7 being provided with perforations 28, 29, for

rocker 8 being provided with perforations 30, 31, for thereception of the lugs 26, 27

Wlien the car is in its horizontal position,

as shown in Fig. 1, the lugs 24 and 2,6 are entilted position by means of lu s 32, 33,

. the said lugs projecting over the upper sides of the rockers 7 and 8 and having their under faces slanted There is also fixed to the upper section 9 of the turn-table an inverted U-shaped piece 36 the car is loaded. The height of the U- shaped piece 36 is such that the free end of the arm 37 will engagp the body of said U- shaped full tilte the latch rod 6 to turn and unlatch the door iece when t e car approaches its 2, leaving theload free to slide out of the in the vertical leg of GO the bearing plate 23 at the rear serving to 8 as supports when 5- those for the rocker 7 being de- 76 the reception of the lugs 24, 25, and the 7 gaged in the perforations 28 and 30. When 30 The car 35 which project outwardly from Z- ars 34, 35, fixed to the uppersection 9 of the turn-table,

to conform tothe position 1 of the rocker when the body is horizontal and When the body is in full tilted position.

under which the free end of an arm 37 ex of a collar 38 to the latch rod 6, the position thrust on the latch rod due to the outward l pressure of the lower edge of the door 2 when adjustment and will thereby cause 119 free the lever 39 whenever desire ver 39 has its lower end projected down-- .wardly and provided with a retaining lip 43 body as the body reaches its full tilted posiwhich, as the lower end of the lever enters a slot 44 (see Fig. 6) in a bracket 45 fixed to a flange at the to of the truck frame 12, passes under the said racket and so locks the rear end of the body down. There is further fixed on the rear end of the latch rod 6 a short arm46 rovided with a lip 47 which projects into t e' path of the lever 39 so that when the lever 39 is swung back into position .rod, the lever may be rocked into the to lock the car body in its horizontal position, it will, by its engagement with the arm 46, lock thelatch rod 6 sufiiciently to throw the bent end 5 of the latch rod upwardly into engagement with the guard track 4 at the lower edge of the car door 2 and. hence lock the door in position for loading the car. As the lever 39 is mounted loosely on the latch 0S1.- tion shown in dotted lines, Fig. 2, to re ease the car body without rotating the latch rod and hence without unlocking the door of the car, the latter remaining closed until it is automatically unlatched by the engagement of the latch arm 37 with the inverted U-piece 36 as has been hereinabove described.

The car may be provided with any well known or approved means for attaching it to adjacent cars.

The'functions of the several parts have been so fully stated in connection with the description of them that a detailed statement of operation would be in the nature of re etition. .Brieflystated: The car body, W en the place where the load is to be dumped is reached, may be dumped endwise bysimply throwin the lever 39 over into the position shown 1n dotted lines, Fig. 2, and releasin the car body, giving it a slight upward hit, the intention bein that the car body shall be substantiallyba anced when in horizontal position. As the car body tilts, its oint o'fsupport on the rockers 7 and 8 will gradually travel forwardly until it finally rests at an angle of 45 more or less and as it approaches this position, the door at the forward end of the car will'be automatically unlocked by the latch arm 37 and the load will be free to slide out; As the car body is returned to its horizontal position, the car door 2 will swing back into its normal position, the latch arm 37 by its engagement with the upper section of the turntable rocking the latch rod -6 a little way but not sufiicient to lock the door, the locking being completed by throwing the lever 39 over into the position shown in full lines, Fig. 2, and thereby, by its engagement with the arm 46, rocking the latch rod into its full locking position. If the load is to be dumped at the side, the car body may be swung around at right angles to its normal position and then the dumping action will take place as hereinabove stated.

It is obvious that changes might be resorted to in the form and structure of the several parts without departing from the spirit and scope of our invention; hence we do not wish to limit ourselves strictly to the structure herein set forth, but

What we claim is:

1. A inu'ck car comprising a suitable truck and a body mounted on rockers'tending to change its point of support as it tilts and means rojectin into the plane of the rockers for iiniting t e vertical movement of the car body in both its full tilted and horizontal positions.

2. A muck car comprising a suitable truck and a turntable supported onthe truck, a car body mounted on rockers on the turntable and means projecting into the lane of the rocker for limiting the vertical isplacement of'the car body in its tilted and horizontal positions.

3. A muck car comprising a suitable truck, a turn-table mounted on the truck, a car body provided with rockers resting on the turn-table and lugs secured to the turn-table in position to engage the rockers in their full tilted and horizontal positions to prevent vertical displacement of the body.

4. A muck car comprising a suitable truck, a turn-table mounted on the truck, a car body supported on rockers on the turn-table and Z-barsterminatin in lugs in position to engage the rockers to limit the vertical displacement of the bar in full tilted and horizontal positions.

5. A muck car comprising a suitable truck, a car body mounted on the truck, the said car body being provided with a swinging door, a latch for holding the door closed, a

latch operating piece connected to the truck and a latch operating rod extending from the latch to the opposite end of the car and provided with means for connecting it with the latch operating piece to unlock the door as the car body is tilted, and further provided with means for operating it and hence the latch manually.

6. A muck car comprising a suitable truck, a turn table mounted on the truck, a car body mounted on the turn table and pro vided with a swinging door, a rocking latch for holding the car door closed, a latch operating armat the opposite end of the car body door when the body is tilted and means for connected with throcking latch for operatthe said rod being provided with operating arms fixed thereon, means for engaglng one of the arms to rock the latch rod and release the engaging the other arm on the latch rod and rocking the rod to lock the door when the body is in its horizontal position.

I 8. A muck car comprising a suitable truck,

a turn-table on the truck, a car body mountedon rockers onthe turn-table and rovided with a swinging door at one end t ereof, a latch rod provided with a latch at one end for locking and releasing the door, the said rod extending underneath the body of the car to the opposite end of the car, a lever mounted on said latch rod for locking the car body in its horizontal osition and releasing it therefrom, an arm ed on said latch rod in osition to engage the said lever when the ever is swung in a direction to lock the car body in its horizontal osition, a fixed stop and a second arn'i on tiie latch rod in position to engage the fixed stop to rock the latch rod in a direction to release the car door when the body is tilted.

In testimony, that we claim the foregoing as our invention, we have signed our names in presence of two Witnesses, this 3rd day of September 1907 and 10th day of September JOHN W. HENDERSON.

JAMES E, SHERIFF. Witnesses for John WV. Henderson:

E. C..MATTES, E. E. WHEELER.. Witnesses for James E. Sherifl"; THOS. G. KENNEDY, F. S. SCOBIE. 

